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AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS FOUNDATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION Sign up for the ABFFE UPDATE newsletter: E-mail address: ABFFE Warns Against Making War on Free Speech On April 25, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression joined other free expression groups in warning that some of the anti-terrorist measures adopted in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks pose a serious threat to free speech.

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Presents BANNED BOOKS ONLINE Welcome to this special exhibit of books that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts. The books featured here, ranging from Ulysses to Little Red Riding Hood, have been selected from the indexes of The Online Books Page. (See that page for over 14, 000 more online books!) This page is a work in progress, and more works may be added to this page ...

Autodafe.org provides in several languages Writings of authors giving their perspectives of the social or political situations, interviews with authors from all points of the world, who are being hosted in Cities of Asylum, Analyses and thoughts on literary creativity, on its link to the society that produces it and on the current status of cultural activities and the examples of censoring ...

Last Updated 7/27/2002- Search FEPP fepproject.org BLAME THAT TUNE: Adolescent Speech and Moral Panics An excerpt from FEPP advisory board member Nan Levinson's forthcoming book, Outspoken: Stories of Free Speech Conflicts. FEPP Asks AMA To Stop Playing Politics With Media Violence Last year, Dr. Edward Hill, chair-elect of the board of the American Medical Association, acknowledged that there ...

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Banned Books Week - Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association, which promotes intellectual freedom, freedom of speech, and the freedom to read.

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Welcome to The Censorship Pages. Here you will find information about the freedom of speech and of the press in reference to the written word. These pages provide the resources needed to explore how, and why censorship happens not only in the United States, but all around the world. I hope these pages are helpful and encourage you to get involved.

As long as humans have sought to communicate, others have sought to prevent them. Every day someone tries to restrict or control what can be said, written, sung, or broadcast. Almost every idea ever thought has proved objectionable to one person or another, and almost everyone has sometimes felt the world would be a better place if only so and so would go away. Perhaps because of their ubiquity, ...

This page is dedicated to author Salman Rushdie Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. Heinrich Heine Nazis burn books in Berlin in 1933. Burning is no answer. Camille Desmoulines reply to Robespierre, January 7, 1794, on burning his newspaper Vieux Cordelier Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a ...

J.K. Rowling s best-selling Harry Potter children s book series topped the most frequently banned books last year. The sorcerer may head up the list again, for the second year in a row, if the shift in censorship cases continues to focus on books abo...

Winter 1996 Volume 23, Number 2 M. Jerry Weiss, Editor Jersey City State College, Jersey City, New Jersey WHAT JOHNNY CAN'T READ Censorship in American Libraries by Suzanne Fisher Staples Among my happiest memories are of rainy summer days tuck-ed up under the eaves of our family's rustic lake cottage, a gentle patter overhead, reading a book. The Hardy Boys. Black Beauty. Treasure Island. The ...

Challenges to school materials are a common occurrence. How should such challenges be handled How can they be avoided

Police Won t Work With Harry Potter Friendly YMCA more Enter a new kidSPEAK! contest! more Parents! Read all about our dedication to privacy. Check it out! Kidspeak is a registered trademark of Brighams, Inc Copyright 2001 American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression ...

An open letter to the censors.